Dear Comrades!

In your letter of February 6 you propose to us a plan for struggle against "official social-patriotism" in connection with the projected London conference of socialists of the "allied countries" of the Triple Entente.83 As you can see, of course, from our organ *Social-Democrat*, we stand on the standpoint of this struggle in general and are conducting it. Therefore we are very glad of your appeal and receive with pleasure your proposal for discussion of a plan for joint action.

The conference, which was reportedly scheduled for February 15 (we have not received a single document about it), may perhaps be postponed until February 25 and later (judging from the letter of Huysmans, who reported on a meeting of the Executive Commission on February 20 and on a plan for personal negotiations between members (the secretary) of the Executive Commission with socialists of France, England, and Russia). It is also possible that the conference is being planned not as an official meeting of members of the ISB, but as a private gathering of individual "prominent" socialists.

Therefore, that counterposition to "official social-patriotism" of a "clear, revolutionary and internationalist" standpoint, of which you write and to which we fully sympathize, must be prepared for all possible contingencies (both for the case of a conference of official representatives of parties, and for the case of a private gathering in all its forms, and for February 15, and for a later date).

For our part, in response to your desire, we propose the following draft declaration, containing such a counterposition (with the aim of reading and publishing this declaration):

"The undersigned representatives of social-democratic organizations of Russia (England, etc.) proceed from the conviction that